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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General — Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system …
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Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
Eric Holder to resign — Attorney General Eric Holder, one of president Obama's longest serving lieutenants, will announce his resignation Thursday, according to the Justice Department. — Holder, widely rumored to have been planning his departure before the unrest in Ferguson thrust …
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Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign … Attorney General Eric Holder will resign, a Justice Department official tells ABC News. — Holder was the nation's first African-American attorney general. — According to the official, “Attorney General Holder has discussed his plans personally …
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John Monk / The State:
VIDEO RELEASED: SC trooper charged with felony in shooting at traffic stop over seat belt violation — COLUMBIA, SC — An S.C. trooper who stopped a man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia and then shot him - apparently without provocation - was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney rips Obama for ‘Ferguson’ — Dick Cheney says it's “outrageous” that President Barack Obama mentioned the summer's unrest in Ferguson, Mo., while speaking about ISIL during a speech at the United Nations. — “I was stunned,” the former vice president said on Wednesday during an interview on Fox News' “Hannity.”
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Mission relaunched — The fight against Islamic State will help define America's role in the world — FOR more than three years, Barack Obama has been trying to avoid getting into a fight in Syria. But this week, with great tracts of the Middle East under the jihadist's knife, he at last faced up to the inevitable.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's exceptional U.N. address
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Richard Grenell / Fox News:
Obama's condemnation of Ferguson, Missouri, during UN talk was a mistake
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Romney 2016 is for real — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY — Is Mitt Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination and lost in 2008, ran again and won the nomination but lost the general election in 2012, really thinking about running yet again for president in 2016?
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New York Post:
Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies — Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog. — Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands! — A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2 …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Returns to Fray and Finds Going Rough — GREENSBORO, N.C. — In one of his first public appearances of the 2014 campaign, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida had a vivid preview Wednesday of the challenges he would face with his party's conservative base should he seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Kay Hagan's Surprising Strength
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Clinton team is following reporters to the bathroom. Here's why that matters. — Amy Chozick is the reporter tasked with covering the Clintons — and the runup to the now-almost-inevitable Hillary Clinton presidential bid — for the New York Times. Sounds like a plum gig, right?
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Iraq looms large again for Hillary Clinton as she weighs another White House bid
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Rob Davis / Oregonian:
Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates — The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Hosts Dub Female Fighter Pilot Who Bombed ISIL ‘Boobs On The Ground’ (VIDEO) — Two male co-hosts of Fox News' “The Five” cracked sexist jokes Wednesday about the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot. — Kimberly Guilfoyle took a moment to salute Major Mariam Al Mansouri …
Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Levels With Us on Why She's Not Retiring — No, she doesn't think she's immortal. She knows that Obama couldn't get a liberal on the Court. So she's toughing it out for now. — There's a phrase judges use in an opinion that any lawyer instantly recognizes as a sure sign …
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Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Retirement Dissent
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Franklin Doloquee / allAfrica.com:
Liberia: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect? — Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently …
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Leslie SalzilloFollow / Daily Kos:
Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret ‘Facts’ About StopRush — Rush Limbaugh, bless his cold little heart, claims he has cracked a major mystery. As he spews, he basically acknowledges the power of what some would call his strongest nemesis - a grassroots organization called StopRush.
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